I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque

As much as I hate to admit it, Bugs Bunny might be wrong! At least, Bugs might not be right (pun intended). The Washington Post has finally documented UPS’ use of Big Data technology to identify the benefits of maximizing right turns. This is an example I often use in...

“Let’s kill all the lawyers”

Who are we to doubt Shakespeare? In Henry VI, Part II, Act 4, Sc. 2, 77 Dick the butcher declares that The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. Having had some recent experiences with some lawyers who When falsely cause viagra online bestellen paypal...

Visualization…not just a tool to achieve your dreams…

Last night, I attended a Meetup hosted by The Hive, an incubator and think tank in the Big Data space. The presentation featured LinkedIn’s use of Big Data visualization tools to support their product development efforts. The speaker, a Senior Data Scientist,...

OpenText vs. Box in a Collaboration Patent Brawl

Software patents have been in the news of late. Just this week, the Supreme Court of the United States (also known as SCOTUS) has taken up the subject once more with Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International. In the world of collaboration, there was also a...

Mobile Data Security

While Neuralytix was putting together the IT21 presentation this year, there was a lot of discussion about data and its relationship to the big problems of IT. Inevitably, for me anyway, this led to a discussion of mobile applications and security. How does one...